The Heteronormatividade and the Graduation in Administration
Name: ROBERTO HIGASHI
Publication date: 19/08/2016
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ELOÍSIO MOULIN DE SOUZA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ELOÍSIO MOULIN DE SOUZA | Advisor * |
| PRISCILLA DE OLIVEIRA MARTINS DA SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The choice of gender issues emerges from latent agenda, which omits or marginalize aspects of organizational life (REED, 2007). Inside the gender issues there is a normative force, heteronormativity, a concept originating in Queer theory, a critique of feminist movements and theories, which treated gender as a binary category and a
heterosexual norm. As noted by the authors of these onceptualizations, heteronormativity is an organizing factor of social life and emerges from within organizations, sometimes subtly but no less forceful. This happens in the form of an institutionalized norm, naturalizing, which does not feel its presence just its effects. Organizational studies are an essential part of the contents of management courses and raised its
relevance; because the "exponential growth of Administration courses turned this area in the locomotive of the Brazilian higher education" (SARAIVA, 2011, p. 42). This study seeks to understand the presence of heteronormativity in the course of administration in a federal university of southeastern Brazil. To achieve this objective,
discourses present in institutional documents, as well as in the speeches of the students of that course were analyzed to find the ways in which heteronormativity is present. Both documents, as the discourses of the students show that this theme is timid in the Administration course of this institution. Thus loses up the opportunity to make them more reflective and critical administrators, less susceptible to follow hegemonic patterns without questioning them. This study has not generalizing claim, but bring us signs of naturalized heteronormativity present in this environment expressed in the discourses. By not realizing the questioning of something granted as natural, loses the opportunity to make more reflective, more critical and less susceptible to follow hegemonic patterns managers, that not questioning them. We advocate a break position or subversion with the boundaries of gender identity deconstructing the categories of identity. "Deconstructing is not the same as destroying because etymologically, deconstruct is to undo, so is closer to analize and not to eliminate"
(LOURO, 2001, p. 548). The review process can help destabilize binarisms as naturalized as male / female, gay / straight and masculinity / femininity, categories that are at the heart of naturalized social inequalities.
